Virginia Tech: Thinking Small - How Small Language Models Could Lessen the AI Energy Burden
April 08, 2026
April 08, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 8 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Thinking small: How small language models could lessen the AI energy burden
While large language models dominate the artificial intelligence discourse, their smaller cousins could offer a less energy intensive, meaningful alternative.
By Noah Frank
With the ubiquity of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and xAI, it can be easy to think that the entire artificial i . . .
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Thinking small: How small language models could lessen the AI energy burden
While large language models dominate the artificial intelligence discourse, their smaller cousins could offer a less energy intensive, meaningful alternative.
By Noah Frank
With the ubiquity of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and xAI, it can be easy to think that the entire artificial i . . .